Reinventing Polish Cinema: History - Ideology - Politics
University of Lodz, Poland, 23-25 October 2006
MONDAY
23 X 2006
PLENARY SESSIONS:
Centrum Konferencyjne / Conference Centre
ul. Kopcinskiego 16/18
All plenary sessions on the 23rd and 24th October will be held in the
Conference Centre, where simultaneus translations could be provided.
1st PLENARY SESSION
12.00-13.00
Chair: Paul Coates
opening of the conference
Karl Skutski
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY
Krzysztof Kieslowski: Prophet of Secular Humanism in the New Europe
Costica Bradatan
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
The “terror of history” in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance
Discussion
2nd PLENARY SESSION
13.15 – 14.15
Chair: Piotr Sitarski
Izabela Kalinowska
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
Lewdness, Nudity, and Eroticism: the 1980s’ in the People’s Republic
of
Poland
Michael Goddard
UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI
Figure of Post-Communist Desire? The Becoming-Popular of Polish Cinema
from the 1980’s and the Performance of Katarzyna Figura
Discussion
14.15 – 15.15 LUNCH
III SESJA PLENARNA / 3rd PLENARY SESSION
15.15 – 16.15
Chair: Tomasz Klys
Sheila Skaff
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO
Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Skeptics: Early Cinema under the Polish
Partitions, 1896-1903
Mariusz Guzek
Caught in the Tzar’s clutches. Anti-russian Movies of the Sfinks Company
in Times of the World War I
Discussion
4th PLENARY SESSION
16.30 – 18.00
Chair: Marek Haltof
Janina Falkowska
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
Construction/De-construction of the Past in the Writings and Films by
Andrzej Wajda
Tadeusz Lubelski
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLOŃSKI
The Spring to Come – a Story of Andrzej Wajda’s Unmade Project
Miroslaw Przylipiak
POMORSKA AKADEMIA PEDAGOGICZNA W SŁUPSKU
The Deconstruction of Documentary in Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble and Man
of Iron
Discussion
COFFEE BREAK
5th PLENARY SESSION
18.15 – 19.45
Chair: Miroslaw Przylipiak
Adam Wyzynski
FILMOTEKA NARODOWA
The Cinematic Testimonies of the Birth of „Solidarity” and Their Difficult
Way to the Screen
Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
Between Elegy and Comedy. The Representation of Martial State in Polish
Cinema
Konrad Klejsa
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
The Parallax Memory. Notes on Solidarity, Solidarity….
Discussion
20.15
meeting in the Museum of Cinematography with a screening of Krzysztof
Kieslowski’s short films
24 X 2006
TUESDAY
6th PLENARY SESSION
9.00 – 10.00
Chair: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski
Sarah Bowen
FARNHAM UNIVERSITY OF THE CREATIVE ARTS
Transitional Space. Landscape in the Films of Jerzy Kucia
Andrzej Pitrus
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
Natalia LL – Beyond Conceptualism
Discussion
7th PLENARY SESSION
10.15 – 11.15
Chair: Andrzej Pitrus
Alison Frank
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
The Surrealist Object in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion
Iwona Guść
UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN
Groteska w filmie polskim: reinterpretacje
Discussion
COFFEE BREAK
8th PLENARY SESSION
11.30 – 12.30
Chair: Tadeusz Lubelski
Don Fredericksen
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Zanussi's Illumination and the Giving of Good and Bad Answers to
Fundamental Questions
Tomasz Klys
UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI
Reinterpreting Illumination
Discussion
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
9th PLENARY SESSION
13.30 – 15.00
Chair: Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska
Alicja Helman
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
The Poetics of Polish Film School – Inspirations and Correspondences
Margarete Wach
KUNSTHOCHSCHULE FÜR MEDIEN, KÖLN
Happening in the Tresor. Polish Cinema and Cinematic Strategies of
Subversion in Eastern Europe Seen Against their Reception in the West
Anil Zankar
FILM AND TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF INDIA
Fiction as Imaginative Treatment of History (from the Distant Observer)
Dyskusja/Discussion
X SESJA PLENARNA / 10th PLENARY SESSION
15.15 –16.45
Chair: Don Fredericksen
Chris Caes
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Is Polish Cinema Democratic? Historical Catastrophe and the Illiberal
Imagination in the International Cinema of Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej
Zuławski, and Agnieszka Holland
Ewa Mazierska
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
Cinema of Un-tourism? The Reception of Polish Postcommunist Cinema in
Great Britain
Paul Coates
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
Ideologies of Sacred and Profane: “Europe” and “The Country” and “The
City” in Polish Cinema since 1989
Discussion
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Panel sessions:
Pałac Biedermanna / Biedermann Palace
ul. Franciszkańska 1/5
All panel sessions will be held at the Biedermann Palace; unfortunately,
there will be no simultaneus translations provided. For all our
international guests we can organise a short sightseeing tour of the city;
after that we would like to invite all our guests for a reception at the
Biedermann Palace.
18. 00 – 19.45
1st PANEL SESSION
Chair: Jolanta Lemann-Zajicek
Jakub Zajdel
UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI
The Family Contribution into the History of Polish Cinema
Natasza Korczarowska-Różycka
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
The Childhood’s Paradise (un)Lost. The Child – the Politics – the
Testimony
Piotr Zwierzchowski
UNIWERSYTET KAZIMIERZA WIELKIEGO W BYDGOSZCZY
Bad Luck as the Film of (the End of) Polish September
Elzbieta Durys
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
Introduction into the Man’s World: Janusz Majewski’s Hotel Pacific
Discussion
2nd PANEL SESSION
Chair: Alicja Helman
Alina Madej
UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI
Henryk Kluba’s Five and Half of Pale Joe: the Poetics of Degraded Ideology
Paulina Kwiatkowska
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI
The Political and Aesthetical Space in Kazimierz Kutz’s Nobody’s Calling
Jan Rek
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Pharaoh, or: the Big Sleep of People’s Republic of
Poland
Małgorzata Jakubowska
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Railway Station times three
Discussion
20.00
reception at the Biedermann Palace
25 X 2006
WEDNESDAY
9.15 – 11.00
3rd PANEL SESSION
Chair: Alina Madej
Inga Lesniewska
UNIWERSYTET WROCŁAWSKI
The Influence of State Politics on the Documentary about “Regained
Territories”. A Case Study
Joanna Preizner
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLOŃSKI
Reading between Frames – the Stalinist People’s Republic of Poland in the
Short Movies of Lodz Film School Students 1949-1954
Ewa Gębicka
UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI
Film Co-op’s in the Context of Cultural Politics of Gomulka’s Government
1960-1968
Jolanta Lemann-Zajićek
PANSTWOWA WYŻSZA SZKOŁA FILMOWA, TELEWIZYJNA I TEATRALNA IM. L. SCHILLERA
The Events and Consequences of March 1968 in Lodz Film School
Discussion
COFFEE BREAK
4th PANEL SESSION
Chair: Piotr Zwierzchowski
Andrzej Kawecki
FILMOTEKA NARODOWA
The Reception of the Polish Cinema 1914-1939 in the People’s Republic of
Poland, or: Historians versus Roommaids
Grażyna Stachowna
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
Romancing the Socialism, or: Bitter-Sweet Melodrama in People’s Republic
of Poland
Mariola Marczak
UNIWERSYTET WARMINSKO-MAZURSKI W OLSZTYNIE
Passionate Zanussi
Artur Majer
Layers of the Text in Juliusz Machulski’s Sexmission
Discussion
11.15 – 12.45
5th PANEL SESSION
Chair: Andrzej Gwozdz
Kamila Zyto
UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI
Dangerous Liasons. The History of Polish-Soviet Relationship in the Cinema
of Robert Glinski
Alicja Kisielewska
UNIWERSYTET W BIAŁYMSTOKU
Against the Myths. The Representation of Eastern Borderlands in Izabella
Cywinska’s mini series God’s Lining
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
UNIWERSYTET LODZKI
Paths of Memory: Wojciech Marczewski’s Weiser and Robert Glinski’s The
Call of the Toad
Discussion
6th PANEL SESSION
Chair: Grażyna Stachowna
Małgorzata Radkiewicz
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
Twists and Turns. Polish Debutes of the 90s.
Marcin Adamczak
UNIWERSYTET IM. ADAMA MICKIEWICZA W POZNANIU
The Unrepresented / Unconstructed Reality in Polish Cinema after 1989
Katarzyna Citko
UNIWERSYTET W BIALYMSTOKU
The Representation od Polish Countryside in the Cinema of Jan Jakub Kolski
– the People’s Republic of Poland’s Look or Innovative View?
Discussion
13.00 – 13.30
PLENARY SESSION AND CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE
Andrzej Gwozdzź
UNIWERSYTET SLĄSKI
DVD as a Para-Medium of the Cinema, or: History of the Cinema Rewritten
(the Films of Kazimierz Kutz in an Educational Collection of
“Silesia-Film”)
Discussion
LUNCH
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